Mets General Manager Jared Porter Was Fired for Sending Inappropriate Texts to a Reporter. How Could the Team Have Avoided This Hiring Disaster? Posted byKenny Herzog January 19, 2021 Leave a comment on Mets General Manager Jared Porter Was Fired for Sending Inappropriate Texts to a Reporter. How Could the Team Have Avoided This Hiring Disaster? The New York baseball squad’s second major personnel crisis in the past year begs the question of how to hire and interview better. Our experts have the answers.